Barack Hussein Obama! (Appropriate applause and high fives, camera pans audience but cannot find Mr. Obama) President Obama is on vacation in Hawaii and will not be able to accept this award tonight. Accepting for President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden. (VP Biden hops up to the stage on one leg because the other foot is in his mouth)
Well, it could happen that way. I think our president deserves a Best Actor Award for the performance he has given over the last year. I mean, come on, you must have been impressed by his ability to make you think he was sincere when he was lying to your face. Only great actors have the ability to sell what they are saying when they know it is Bull Shit. Bravo, Mr. President. Well done.
However, there is distinction here that probably disqualifies President Obama from the Academy Awards. Actors are paid to make us believe a fantasy. They say words that are not their own but must convince us that they are indeed the fruit of the character they are portraying. Pres O is not paid for that. He is paid to tell us the truth. I seriously doubt if he was elected to purposely lie to us. I don't remember that being part of his campaign. He promised Hope and Change not Lies and Corruption. Unfortunately, he has delivered the latter in his first year in office. And there is no "change" about the same old Lies and Corruption.
We expect our President to tell us the truth, So, why is he lying to us? He makes promises he cannot and will not keep or tells the American public things that he knows not to be true. In either case, he can be labeled a liar. I find it a stretch to believe that he believes what he is saying is true. Is Pres O that naive? Does he have such a Pollyanna complex that he believes that if he says certain things they will magically work out even when they are absurd? This is usually not indicative of a Harvard Law School grad. Is he smart or is he stupid? If he's stupid, that puts a whole new spin on things and he should be voted out of office. If he's smart, then he's lying through his teeth while smiling at the camera. If he's lying, he should be voted out of office. Either way, he should not be our President.
He is a convincing liar. He makes you want to believe him even when you know what he is saying is totally inaccurate or is a total fabrication. He sells opinion as fact. He tells us about statistics like jobs created or saved that cannot be backed up by facts. He knows when he's telling us that the information is bogus but he tells us any way. Maybe we'll believe him. Maybe not. The point is, most of the time he is lying to us and we know it.
People reach a point, when lied to enough, that they finally say "Enough is enough". At that point, they stop listening to the lies or believing the liar and withdraw their giving of the benefit of the doubt. I believe that is what has happened in America and why Pres O's support and approval ratings are in the tank. People are fed up with being lied to. The American public is not stupid.
Health Care is a perfect example. Pres O promised over and over again that you would be able to keep your doctor under the new plan. Surprise! Now he is claiming that "someone" (oooh, an unnamed, mysterious entity) has "snuck" a provision into the legislation that will NOT allow you to keep your doctor. Oooops! Well, who could this "someone" be. Must be the evil Republicans. No, they have not been included in the legislative process for the Health Care bill. Hmmm, that leaves only members of Pres O's own party, the Democrats. Ooooops, again. Who is their leader? Pres O. Wait, he said it was "someone" and he played the innocent victim having no idea how it got there. Could he be lying to us about that? Ya think! He's known all along that the provisions in the HC bill would not allow you to keep your doctor. Now that things are out in the open and people are able to read the bill, he's got to cover his butt. As long as he could keep things from the public eye, he could say anything he wanted and no one could verify the veracity of his statements. However, now that the bill has been made public it's time to do some damage control. Liar, liar, pants on fire.
Why does Washington treat us this way? We vote for these people (OK, I did NOT vote for Pres. O, just so we're clear on that point) to govern us, give them our trust and then they talk down to us and lie to our face about what they are doing. Aren't you sick of this? "Politics as usual" is killing our country. There is a solution to all of this and I'll address that in my next post.
I heard an interview on the radio today with Mike Huckabee. Gov Huck was talking about his interview with Michelle Obama and what a lovely and sincere person she is. Well, what kind of "lovely and sincere" woman can stand to be married to a man that lies to the American public constantly. I would think she would be constantly on vigil to make sure he wasn't lying to her. Or at least morally outraged at his actions. Funny, I have not heard any criticism of Pres O from Ms M. Do you think maybe she's in on it? DUH! Gov Huck better go back and rethink his comments in defense of the First Lady to her critics. Bad call Huck.
Now, I'm going to make you a promise which I will keep. Being a man of integrity, I will not lie to you. I will never purposely tell you something I know to be untrue (definition of a liar). I may be mistaken upon occasion. If I discover inaccuracies in my posts, I will be the first one to blog a correction and admit to my error. It really is not that hard to do. Living a life above board is much better than living one under the table. There are no lies so you never have to keep track of your lies to make sure they are consistent. To me that's too much work.
The promise: I will explain to you in my next post how to make all this lying in Washington go away.
See you next time, America. No lies. Ever.
-Doug Cochran
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